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matthewbroome.bsky.social
Director, Institute for Mental Health, and Chair in Psychiatry and Youth Mental Health, University of Birmingham. Interested in psychosis, youth mental health, neuroscience, philosophy, phenomenology. NHS Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis
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A psychoanalytic take on Musk and Thiel’s “leadership”, which combine an identity as both god/saviour and victim.

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Doctors at one of England’s leading cancer hospitals have launched a clinical trial of headgear that emits electric fields. The pulses disrupt cell division in glioblastoma — one of the deadliest forms of brain cancer www.thetimes.com/article/23d3...

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Bookmail 💌 #proust2025 #booksky

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Onto volume 3 too! #Proust2025

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Ha! Haha. Telling that this seems mostly about academic staff... I can guarantee professional services staff figures are higher. It's why I left. "Three main campus unions in 2020 found that nearly a third of staff had experienced bullying or harassment at work in the previous 18 months." Obscene.

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Universities' existential crisis latest: Coventry University lost £60m last year and its auditors now question its ability to continue in being. Stop this madness now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Rich people live longer than poor people in the US and Europe – but rich Americans have far shorter lifespans than rich people in northern, western and southern Europe.

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A Brief Visual History of Virginia Woolf’s Book Covers lithub.com/a-brief-visu...

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I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover--in just a few short days--that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors.

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🎉 Happy Anniversary Murmur! The band’s debut album was released 42 years ago this weekend in 1983… as always, share your favorite track in the comments.

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“Almost everything serious is difficult, and everything is serious” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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Cars ruin cities in more ways than just running people over. Paris has reduced air pollution by 50-55% over the past 20 years through policies limiting traffic and banning polluting vehicles.

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Great. Now I need to inject bleach into my eyes.

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mullet update—cogitans at the front, extensa at the back

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I’m looking forward to the start of my book tour ‘One Small Step’ in Manchester at Serenity Booksellers tomorrow at 6pm. @panmacmillan @mattwhyman @parkrun

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Browsing for books in Hay-on-Wye

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quite weird to me that the only good recent official portrait of a British Prime Minister is.....Theresa May

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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... really enjoyed this series over the last couple of days -Asimov, Ironman, Batman, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy plus dawned on me that Lepore has written books on both US history and wonder-woman that I’ve read and enjoyed

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I thought I might as well go below and make a rough draft of my will.

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Slowly building my vintage Weil collection…

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Done some work, collected daughter from train, and think now can relax a bit. Looking forward to seeing a friend tomorrow morning for a Parkrun meet up

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Very good

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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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I’m very honored that this happened. For me of course, but also because in this time of constant threat against academia and especially against academic philosophy, it’s a little hope that some people see the importance of what we collectively do.

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Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and please order a copy for your library or whatever Less than a month now until our handbook is published in North America (later for at least some other places, including Europe): global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

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Exclusive: Researchers at the US National Institutes of Health were told they can't attend scientific conferences and meetings without official permission, even if they pay their way and go during time off, current and former NIH scientists told Reuters reut.rs/4j7rFLT

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New research on what happens to older people, families and care staff when care homes close - policy and practice guide & training video via www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/soci...

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📢 App Version 1.100 is rolling out now (1/2) Chat reactions are here! You can now respond to chat messages (aka “direct messages”) with an emoji ❤️

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Thank you @seiaraimanova.bsky.social for the amazing Fix chocolate - my daughter was very excited

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this quote is basically as close as I'll ever get to a religious text, I always reread it in the way I assume some read the bible

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🚨Every word of this from AOC. "If people are pissed about insider trading here at the House, look at what's happening at the White House.” (🎥 NY1)

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Join our #research team in the #MoodDisorders workstreem for the Mental Health Mission 🧠 with @matthewbroome.bsky.social at the @imh-uob.bsky.social edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Twin Peaks: Bobby Briggs being questioned at school about his missing girlfriend, Laura Palmer.

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